• Project Veritas is appealing a decision from a federal judge who sided with CNN’s request to dismiss a defamation case against them despite that judge agreeing that there was a difference between the facts and what CNN reported.
• Last year, Projec…
• Project Veritas is appealing a decision from a federal judge who sided with CNN’s request to dismiss a defamation case against them despite that judge agreeing that there was a difference between the facts and what CNN reported.
• Last year, Project Veritas sued CNN for defamation claiming the journalist organization was suspended from Twitter for “misinformation,” despite CNN knowing that Project Veritas was suspended for inadvertently displaying a lamppost with a house number (but nothing else) on it.
• In a video breaking down the decision to appeal the judge’s decision in this suit, Project Veritas Founder and CEO, James O’Keefe, attributed the dismissal to “flawed caselaw” and “mental gymnastics.”
• Federal Judge Steve Jones’ decision: “While there is some difference between violating a policy by providing incorrect or misleading information and violating a policy by truthfully providing someone’s private information... the distinction is not enough to make the statement at issue actionable as both violations are similarly damaging to the journalist’s reputation.”
• Project Veritas has appealed to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and their lawyers argue that accusing a journalist of publishing something false is substantially different, and damaging, than accusing a journalist of publishing the truth.
[NEW YORK – JULY 20, 2022] Project Veritas announced in a new video that they have appealed Federal Judge Steve Jones’ decision to dismiss a defamation suit against CNN.
Project Veritas’ defamation suit against CNN stems from the network’s knowingly false claim that the nonprofit journalist organization was suspended on Twitter because of “misinformation.”
In reality, Twitter banned Project Veritas because the organization inadvertently failed to blur a lamppost in a video posted to the platform.
CNN knew this. Days before CNN’s false broadcast aired, CNN Business’ Brian Fung correctly reported the facts, citing the Twitter policy and even sought comment ..
